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SITCOM DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1962

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The Jetsons is a animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera that originally
aired in primetime until November 12, 1987 on the ABC television network.  

 

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FORMER ASTRONAUT IS 83 TODAY

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     Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D. was born in Hereford, Texas

Mitchell is a retired U.S. Navy Captain, pilot and NASA astronaut. As the 
lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar 
surface, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon. Mitchell was
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon
in 1970.

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ORIGINAL ‘’STAR TREK’’ ACTOR IS 77 TODAY

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Walter Marvin Koenig 

Koenig is a actor, writer, teacher and director, remembered for portraying 
Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek and Alfred Bester in Babylon 5
(1993-1998). He wrote the script for the 2008 science fiction legal thriller
InAlienable.
 

Walter Koenig was the first original cast member of Star Trek to write an
actual story for the series called “The Infinite Vulcan”.

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ANGELA CARTWRIGHT IS 61 TODAY

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Angela Cartwright
Angela Margaret Cartwright 

Actress Cartwright is best known as a child actress for her role as
Brigitta Von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music, as Danny
Williams’ stepdaughter Linda in the 1950s TV series Make Room
For
Daddy
(a role she played from 1957 to 1964), and as Penny
Robinson in the 1960s television series Lost in Space.

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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         Camille Bohannon

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